There has been lots happening in the YGP space over the last few months. Firstly, I want to acknowledge Helen’s work as the previous YGP representative. Helen has done an amazing job in the role, which, amongst many other things, has included organising the regional…
Background The Heritage Time Capsule is an initiative from the ISSMGE for which detailed information can be found at https://www.issmge.org/the-society/time-capsule. Current content includes contributions from member societies, technical committees, past-presidents and corporate associates. The contribution from Australia to the Heritage Time Capsule project was the…
2023 is off to a great start and we have some exciting opportunities for YGP’s to get involved coming up. Regional Symposia Our four regional symposia planning are underway. Current dates are Look out for the call for abstracts in the NZGS newsletter and get…
Rotorua, New Zealand In a time honoured tradition, the 14th ANZ Young Professionals symposium was held in Rotorua in November 2022. It was NZ’s turn to host and being the smaller of the nations and being the first international YGP event post covid, we were determined…
2022 End of Year report 2022 has been another challenging year for YGP’s. So much has happened and the start of the year and borders shut, Covid lockdowns and traffic lights feels like years ago, not the couple of months that it has been in…
YGP Wellington Symposium In October we hosted the Wellington YGP Symposium. The symposium included a total of 14 young geotechnical professional delegates from across the industry, including geotechnical engineering, engineering geology and contracting. Presentations included design and construction case studies, thesis and research topics, and…
South Island Young Geotechnical Professionals Symposium 2021 The South Island YGP Symposium was held in Christchurch on the 9th of June and was a great success. Congratulations to Tom Revell for winning the people’s choice award for his presentation on the southern hemisphere’s first rockfall…
The 1st Wellington YGP symposium concluded successfully on 6 August 2019 and received lots of positive feedback. In total, 18 people from 11 different consultancies attended the symposium. The event was sponsored by Geotechnics, Engineering NZ and NZGS. 10 presentations on various geotechnical topics were…
The 1st Christchurch regional YGP one day symposium was held on 21 June 2019. It was an absolute success with overwhelmingly positive feedback. The event was made possible by the sponsorship of Geotechnics, WSP-Opus and NZGS. In total, 20 people were in attendance from…
NZGS Scholarships (annual) Important dates are: Sept 2018 Call for applications End Oct 2018 Closing date for applications End Nov 2018 Closing date for full submission Feb 2019 Successful applicants announced (if any) See advertisement in this issue for details NZGS Student Awards Poster Competition…